Spot on - why would you spend extra on marketing/homologation (turbo) if you’re going to sell all you’re allocated anyway? Models like this are “cream” as they add additional profitability without too much in the way of costs or development. “Low hanging fruit”, if you will.

I literally have no idea what year models Camry are from the 2002 XV30 through to the current XV70, and I can’t tell which is the outgoing VX50 and which is the current one.

Ferrari ran a similar shield at Silverstone FP1 in July last year with Vettel reporting distortions making him dizzy, as well entry/exit issues.

<touches open pore ash, red leather and brushed aluminium trim in S250 wagon in garage>

Truth - watched a guy repeatedly grind footpegs trying to keep in front of my MX-5 down a mountain road. I would have been, at best, half pace. Ugly, yet fascinating, to watch

I have a pet theory that the whole US craft IPA thing got out of hand about 5 years ago and no-one’s game to be the first to put their hand up and say the beers are overhopped to the point of undrinkability

Popular with the “cuzzy bro” set (our New Zealand Maori and South Pacific Islander friends) along with elderly XR10 Toyota Tarago/Previas (locally, the Cuzzy Bus). Lovely people, but car maintenance isn’t a strong feature of their rich culture.

Was that the one with the German chief Architect of the rocket that got them there?

Was looking at how thin the A-Pillars were in the top shots. Guess we know what that means for transferring crash load into the structure

You can get a topical cream that’ll clear those right up

Anyone else getting a Fallout 4 vibe from that video?

Suspect the pedestrian has a higher NCAP rating than the Jeep.

Anything that gets CR-V’s off the road is okay in my book

This already happens in S0uth East Asian countries

Exactly - I always took the CLA and the Shooting Brake as Mercedes testing the market for an A-Class sedan/wagon combo.

It was a curious distinction, claiming the first as an “Echo with some 9 volt batteries in the trunk” as both the first and second generation Prius’ sit on the same platform, the MC. If you’re referring to body/luggage capacity, size and most notably electrical power (which was very significantly increased), and the…

The original W168 A Class ran an ‘ACS’ (auto clutchless) manual transmission where you had to drive it like a regular manual (or ‘stick’) including shifting, and getting out of and back into the throttle during gear changes, but with no clutch pedal.

I test drove one, and it was freaking weird driving, it, and yeah,…

Drove from Melbourne to Adelaide for the ‘95 Australian Grand Prix in my old Mitsubishi Magna wagon(wide body Sigma, or the model before the first Diamante the US got). It’s about an eight hour drive, around 750 km/466 miles from where I was living at the time. Literally got in the car in Melbourne, drove non-stop…